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RE: Gifting Kindly to The Self
I think even the old bricks are not so old, it's a small village, I guess till 40-50 years ago, they were using stones to build walls. (like part of what you see in the right wall).
Next time I will examine it, I think the wall on the back is completely different from the right wall (even the lower part of it).
The wooden door in the back is about half a meter in the ground, so looks like you're right, the ground was about half meter lower before, and probably there was a wall a bit more than half meter, just to separate the lands, then the wanted to build a house and made a new wall on that old one.
But again you don't see really old brick walls in that village, it's either stone walls or mud (?) walls.
It's what makes those buildings interesting to me, they have a history and therefore have a story to tell about their owners and people that lived there before. I've seen old recycled brick used for foundations before as a cost saving measure, but the above ground brick work was new to get an even finish on the outside of the building. You see the reverse also; many ancient buildings have been stripped of their marble and had their bricks recycled to be used in modern buildings.